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Alternate Title(s): Opthamoduleia
Author: Georg Bartisch
Publication Location: Dresden
Year: 1583

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Summary

First book devoted to diseases of the eyes: In addition to professors in universities who published in Latin, health-care practitioners outside the universities, such as barber-surgeons and apothecaries, printed medical texts in the vernacular. This book, written in German, is the first printed work devoted to the eye.

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Theme(s): Health Sciences, History of the Book
Chronological Period: 16th century
Geographical Region(s): Europe, Saxony, Germany
Resource Type: Book